Unequal chances : family background and economic success /

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Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are un...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Russell Sage Foundation
Otros Autores: Bowles, Samuel, Gintis, Herbert, Osborne Groves, Melissa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Income distribution > Social aspects.
Families > Economic aspects.
Inheritance and succession > Social aspects.
Equality > Psychological aspects.
Social status > Psychological aspects.
Social mobility > Psychological aspects.
Revenu > Répartition > Aspect social.
Familles > Aspect économique.
Successions et héritages > Aspect social.
Statut social > Aspect psychologique.
Mobilité sociale > Aspect psychologique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Equality > Psychological aspects
Families > Economic aspects
Income distribution > Social aspects
Inheritance and succession > Social aspects
Social mobility > Psychological aspects
Social status > Psychological aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The apple does not fall far from the tree / Greg Duncan [and others]
  • The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought : new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings / Bhashkar Mazunder
  • The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults / David J. Harding [and others]
  • Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation : a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden / Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon
  • Rags, riches, and race : the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States / Tom Hertz
  • Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children : genetic and environmental contributions / John C. Loehlin
  • Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status / Melissa Osborne Groves
  • Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China / Marcus W. Feldman [and others]
  • Justice, luck, and the family : the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective / Adam Swift.

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